HMS Charger (1894)

Plans for the Charger class
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Charger
Builder:	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Poplar, London
Laid down:	November 1893
Launched:	15 September 1894
Completed:	February 1896
Fate:	Scrapped, 1912
General characteristics
Class and type:	Charger-class destroyer
Displacement:	255 long tons (259 t)
Length:	195 ft (59 m)
Beam:	18.5 ft (5.6 m)
Draught:	7.25 ft (2.2 m)
Propulsion:	vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 3,800 hp (2,834 kW)
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder gun 3 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Charger was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Poplar, London on 15 September 1894, served in home waters and was sold off in 1912.

Charger was commissioned at Devonport by Lieutenant Robert William Francis Travers on 11 March 1902, for service with the Devonport instructional flotilla. Travers was reassigned to the battleship Nile the following month, when Lieutenant G. H. Brown was appointed in command of Charger.